Vindication of Fundamental Rights and Governments of English Freemen, Treatise · Errata
Omiſſions and Errataes.
Kinde Reader, I preſent thee with ſome Hiſtorical Paſſages, caſually omitted in their due places; and ſuch Errors as have hapned at the Preſs, which I deſire thee to correct.
PAge 10. line 8. One a…. Anno 654. …. 229, 23….Thunder maliciouſly accuſed Anno 654.Aethelbert, and Aethelred, two kinſmen of Egbert King of Kent, educated and brought up in his Court, that they intended ſome time or other to take away his kingdom from him; and thereupon adviſed the King, either to baniſh them both into ſome farr Country, or to deliver them unto him to deſtroy and murder, without any Propoſit. 2, 6.legal Trial, or conviction of their guilt. Which Thunder often inſtigating the King to doe, and he but coldly prohibiting, or diſliking; thereupon Thunder, in the Kings abſence raſhly preſumed ignominiouſly to murder them in the Kings Palace, and then buried them under his Royal Chair, in a Village called Eſtria. The King returning to his Court, in the dead of the night duplicate page duplicate page there appeared a bright pillar ſent from heaven, which filled his whole royal Palace with an unſpeakable brightneſſe: which the Kings ſervants beholding, were ſo terrified, that they fell down to the ground, and became almoſt diſtracted. The King being awaked, with the tumult of his Guard, and being ignorant of the cauſe thereof, aroſe, that he might go and hear Mattens as he was accuſtomed: And going out of his houſe, he ſaw the City ſhining with the beams of the new ſplendor. Upon which miſſing his Kinſmen, he ſent for Thunder, and demanded of him where they were? who anſwered him like Cain; Am I thy Kinſmens keeper? To which the King replied, Thou haſt always ſiniſterly accuſed them unto me, and therefore, moſt wicked wretch, thou oughteſt to ſhew me where they are: Whereupon he informed him of their murder and burial; whereat the King was very angry with him; But returning at laſt to himſelf, he refunded the Crime & whole wickedneſſe on himſelf, and being confounded beyond meaſure, ſpent the reſidue of the night in tears. When the day appeared, he ſent for the Archbiſhop Adeo-datus, et Magnates quos habere potuit convocar… praecepit, and cauſing the Nobles to be called together, related the whole buſineſſe to them. The Archbiſhop gave counſel, that the bodies of theſe Innocents ſhould be removed to the Cathedral Church, and there interred in a royal manner. Thereupon putting their bodies with Saints reliques into Coffins and Carts, they intended to carry them to Chriſts Church, in Canterbury, but in vain, becauſe they could not ſtirre their corps, nor remove them out of the place, although they attempted it with much endeavour and force. VponUpon this, changing their counſel, they intended to remove them to St. Auguſtines Church, neither yet could they effect it. At laſt they reſolved they ſhould be removed to the moſt famous Monaſtery of Waermen, upon which the Carts preſently removed with eaſe, as if they had no burden; and they were buried by the High Altar in this Monaſtery.
bMa…bu…y, de Geſtis Reg. l. 1. c. 2. p. 14. Ma…. Weſt. …n. 671.Kinewalchus King of the Weſt Saxons, deceaſing Anno 672. Regni arbi…rium Uxori Sexburgae delegandum Anno 672.putavit: nec deerat mulieri spiritus ad obeundaregia munia: ipſa novos exercitus mol…ri, veteres tenere in officio, ipſa ſubjectos clementer moderari, hoſtibus minaciter infremere, prorſus omnia facere, ut nihil prae…r ſexum diſcerneres: Veruntamen plus quam animos foemineos anhelantem vita deſtituit, vi… an…ua poteſtate Propoſit. 6, 8, 1….perfunctam. When ſhe had reigned thus one year Indignantibus Regni Magnatibus (aſſembled moſt likely in a Parliamentary Council) expulſa eſt a Regno, nolentes ſub ſexu Foemineo militare; The Nobles thereupon made Eſchwin King in her place, being Regali proſapia proximus, next of the royal bloud: quo decedente vel morte ſua, vel vi aliena, vacantem aulam ſucceſſione legitima implevit …entianus; He being the next right heir.
Page 24. l. 24. About the year 783. c…ill. …. de Geſt. Reg. l. 1. c. 4 p. 30, 31, 32. Mat. P…rker Amiqu. Eccl. …. p. 27. 28, 29 Mat. Weſt. Anno 789, 797, 798 G…rv ſi…s Acta …. Cant, col. 1642. Propoſit. 5, 6.Kenulph Anno 79….King of Mercia, Cum Epiſcopis, Ducibus, et omni ſub noſtra ditione dignitatis gradu, with the Biſhops, Dukes, and Nobles of every degrée of Honor under his Dominion, (aſſembled in a Parliamentary Council) writ a Letter to Pope Leo the 3d. to re…nite thoſe Biſhopricks to the Metropolitical See of Canterbury, which King Offa, (out of his hatred to Arcbbiſhop Living) had ſevered from it, and united to a new-erected Arcbbiſhoprick at Liche…ield, alleging in the Letter; Viſum eſt cunctis gentis noſtrae Sapientibus, quatenus in illa Civitate Metropolitanus honor haberetur ubi corpus beatae recordationis Auguſtini (qui verbum Dei imperante beato Gregorio, Anglorum genti remonſtrabat, et glorioſiſſime Eccleſiae praefuit Saxoniae) panſat, qui his partibus fidei veritatem inſeruit. This Letter, with Pope Leo his anſwer thereunto (worth the reading) are at large regiſtred in Malmsbury and Mathew Parker: Hereupon the new Archbiſhoprick of Lichfield was diſſolved, and the antient Metropolitical Iuriſdiction of the See of dSee here, p. 32.Canterbury reſtored. Anno 798. by the Iudgement and decree of the Council of Bacanceld, and advice of Pope Leo; who being advanced to the Papacy, and ſaying his firſt Maſſe, a certain woman to whom he formerly had acceſſe, as was reported, coming up to offer, wringing him ſweetly by the hand and kiſſing it, thereby ſtirred up an incentive of luſt in the Pope; Who after the Maſſe ended, ſitting in his Chamber and reprehending himſelf, ſodenly cut off his hand, according to that Goſpel-ſaying: *Mat. 5 29, 30.If thy foot or hand ſhall offend, cut it off and caſt it from thee, &c. After which, concealing the fact, and retiring to a ſolitary place, he prayed to the bleſſed Virgin to reſtore his hand cut off from his arm; which ſhe miraculouſly did. And thereupon it was then decreed: Statutum est tunc quod nunquam ex tunc manus Papae ab offerentibus deoſcularetur, ſed Pes; that never from thenceforth the Popes hand ſhould be kiſſed by ſuch who offered (or reſorted to him, but his foot:) as eAnno 799. p. 293 See Onuphrius, Bal us, and o…bers in his Life.Matthew Weſtminſter, and others record: The original ground of kiſſing the Popes foot inſtead of his hand ever ſince fSim. Dunelm. de Geſt. Reg. Angl. Col. 116. Radulph. de Dice…o, Col. 799. See Platina, Onuphrius, Baronius, Hermannus Schedel. R…l eus, Opme…rus, and others in his Life.Some write, this Popes tongue and eyes were once or twice cut off, and pulled out by the Citizens of Rome, and yet again miraculouſly reſtored to him, as well as his hand: which the blind Papiſts may credit, though few elſe believe to be a truth, but a ridiculous lying Romiſh Legend for the whetſtone.